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Eric Ewazen
12+ albums
20th Centuryamerican20th Century Classical
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Eric Ewazen (b. 1954, Cleveland, Ohio) (pronounced ee-WAY-zen, according to the composer; it is a shortened version of a Ukrainian name, Ewaszczyszen) is an American composer and teacher. Ewazen studied composition under Samuel Adler, Milton Babbitt, Gunther Schuller, Joseph Schwantner, Warren Benson, and Eugene Kurtz at the Eastman School of Music and The Juilliard School (where he received numerous composition awards, prizes, and fellowships). He has been on the faculty of The Juilliard School since 1980, and has been a lecturer for the New York Philharmonic's Musical Encounters Series. He has also served on the faculties of the Hebrew Arts School and the Lincoln Center Institute. He served as Vice President of the League of Composers - International Society of Contemporary Music from 1982-1989, and was also composer-in-residence for the Orchestra of St. Luke's. Ewazen's compositions have been performed by numerous ensembles and orchestras around the world, such as the Cleveland Orchestra, and at festivals such as Woodstock, Tanglewood, Aspen, Caramoor, Tidewater, and the Music Academy of the West, among others. His works have been commissioned and performed by organizations such as the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, Greenwich Symphony, Fairfield Chamber Orchestra, American Brass Quintet, Borealis Wind Quintet, Bellevue Philharmonic, Detroit Chamber Winds, Western Piedmont Symphony, School for Strings, L'Amore di Musica, New York State Council on the Arts, the Philip-Morris
top songs
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A Hymn for the Lost and the Living
1412Sonata for Trumpet and Piano: 1. Lento: Allegro Molto
1343Sonata: I. Allegro maestoso
1254Sonata for Trumpet and Piano: 2. Allegretto
1125Quintet for Connosax & String Quartet: II. Moderato
1116Pastorale for Trumpet, Bass Trombone & Piano
977Frostfire: I. Bright And Fast
968Sonata for Trumpet and Piano: 3. Allegro con Fuoco
899Concerto for Trumpet and Strings: I. Allegro moderato
8510Trio in E-Flat for Trumpet, Violin and Piano: i. Andante
84albums
Chamber Music Of Eric Ewazen
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Eric Ewazen: Music for Bass Trombone
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Down a River of Time - Oboe Concertos from the Baroque to the Present
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Ewazen-Lebens-Eklund Play Ewazen
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Orchestral Music & Concertos
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Bass Hits
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Philip Smith plays Broughton, Turrin, Enescu, Tomasi, MacDowell, Gershwin, Bernstein, Lane, Ewazen and Thompson
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Joseph Alessi Plays Bernstein, Peaslee, Rush, Ewazen, Massenet, Ropartz, Bernstein and Elkjer
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Summit Brass Live
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Discoveries - 2oth Century Music for Wind Quintet By Ewazen, Steinmetz, & Del Aguila
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Marya Martin Plays Eric Ewazen
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American Classics for Memorial Day